The Mechanical Theory Of Heat (1879)

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At last I'm able to read Clausius' own train of thought when deriving the concept of Entropy and at last, too, the ideas made "click", for Thermodynamics is such a strange science -simply put, it uses a motor to extract a fundamental law of nature- that I had to "hear" the voice one of the original actors of the incredible mise en scene of this body of knowledge.
Up to now, I always had a strange feeling when reading about the second law: that even though I could understand it, I was unable of "making it mine", probably because I couldn't form the idea of how somebody could have thought about infinitely close Carnot engines, the obtaining of Q/T and Equivalence of Transformations, to mention a few of his concepts.
All the deductions in modern books -although based on Clausius ideas- seemed artificial. Even after devouring Cardwell's From Watt to Clausius: The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age my feelings didn't changed. Now, I'm relieved because I can follow him with peace of mind, knowing that there existed such a person, such a mind and such concomitant chain of thoughts.
¿Could that be done again, in the same way, in October of 2009 and beyond?
In my search of his original papers in a language that I could read , the closest I had arrived was in Magie's, A Source Book in Physics but to my dismay, when he presents Clausius' paper on Entropy,,just in the most important part where I was expecting to see the author's mathematical deduction,as in a surreal dream, Magie does not include them and begins straight out with "We obtain the equation..."
The Holy Grail of Understanding was once more aparted after barely seeing its shadow and I had to wait many more years to drink from it.

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